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My heart breaks for those little boys
Today I woke up with such a sense of sadness. I thought all night about the boys of Susan Powell – who were killed by their father when he blew up their Washington state home. If Josh Powell insisted on taking his own life, that is one thing. But in this act, he attacked those [...]
KTVX ABC 4 Anchor Team Changes
For Immediate Release December 5, 2011 KTVX ANNOUNCES NEW EVENING NEWS ANCHOR TEAM Hunsaker and Conway named primary anchors for ABC 4 News, 4:00pm News Expansion ABC 4, KTVX Television has named Brent Hunsaker and Kylie Conway co-anchors for the station’s evening newscasts. A Brigham Young University graduate, Brent Hunsaker began his career over twenty [...]
Karen Carlson – the Reason I’m leaving ABC Channel 4
It’s with a heavy heart I announce I will only remain at Channel 4 until the end of the year. Though the station has given me a generous offer to extend my contract for an additional three years, my husband and I have decided it’s in the best interest of our growing family to move [...]
Ha ha! This one really made me laugh
I saw a tweet a while back about this contest – it’s a racing event for charity. But I had no idea this page existed! Sooo funny to me: http://dailyderbi.com/utah-event-motor-mouth-contest/ Well, the name “Motor Mouth” contest.. I think I could easily win this one off the track….
Cystic Fibrosis Fundraising Efforts
On Thursday night, I was recognized as one of Utah’s Finest Under 40, one of 8 people (only 4 women) chosen. As one of the honorees, I raised money and awareness for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and also wrote an essay on the spirit of helping others. The topic of the essay was as follows: [...]
Boy.. you never know where your face is going to pop up!
Okay, this is actually kind of funny. I was doing some online, boring stuff when this photo was brought to my attention. This is from 2004, during one of the times I helped feed the homeless on Los Angeles’ skid row. I was asked as a “celebrity” (they use the term loosely sometimes) to volunteer [...]
Thanks for taking the time to write!
I can’t tell you how much it means to me to receive email and letters from viewers who watched me years ago in other markets. I recently received a card from a viewer during my time at KABC, and also, an email from someone in Memphis, when I worked at WREG.
Housing Crisis – a disaster I reported would happen in 2005
While I was perhaps the only reporter in the Los Angeles market who reported on the imminent decline in the housing market, this is one of a few times I could say I wished I had been wrong. When everyone else was reporting about the “great housing market,” I did a story that was the [...]
WEBSITE DESIGN: I don’t know a ton, but enough to get by…
I suppose all of this started when I was in the fourth grade, and I successfully hooked up our first-ever VCR to the television and made it work. Nowadays, that may not seem like a big feat, but back then, technology wasn’t what it was today and by most accounts, it was pretty awesome a [...]